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mkhoury

@mkhoury@mastodon.online

AI Software Architect 💻. Degree in Literature and Philosophy 🎓.
Fantasy, sci-fi, digital rights 📚. Talk to me about code, mind, knowledge, learning, life, love, thinking, friends, experience.

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premartinpatrick, to ai French
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A la recherche d'une solution abordable pour tester un système de chatbot ou un assistant virtuel qui se débrouillerait à partir d'une base documentaire textuelle.

Le truc de RASA semble intéressant mais le descriptif laisse supposer qu'il ne fait pas ce qu'il me faudrait.

Reste le truc en alpha chez OVH.

Z'avez d'autres pistes ou expériences ?

mkhoury,
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@premartinpatrick Si c'est du RAG, peut-être ceci: https://docs.ragas.io/en/stable/
Je l'ai pas essayé, mais ça a l'air assez bien.

Daojoan, to random
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We are about to see waves of layoffs and redundancies across industries as a result of generative AI and LLMs. That's not up for debate. It's a cold, hard fact.

Never fear. Recognising the coming crisis, the Republican Party has leapt into action.

By...pre-emptively banning a Universal Basic Income.

mkhoury,
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@iquaanyin @Daojoan maybe, but at least they're punishing poor people for the deadly sin of being poor 👍

CelloMomOnCars, (edited ) to random
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"A growing number of climate analysts believe that 2023 may be recorded as the year in which annual reached a pinnacle before the global fossil fuel economy begins a terminal decline.

“It’s not a question of ‘if’, it’s just a matter of ‘how soon’ – and the sooner the better for all of us,” said Fatih Birol, the head of the IEA."


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/30/climate-scientists-hail-2023-as-beginning-of-the-end-for-fossil-fuel-era

mkhoury,
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@CelloMomOnCars that seems... awfully optimistic, no?

mkhoury,
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@CelloMomOnCars I hope you're right! I just see my country
(Canada) keep subsidizing oil. I see Alberta (the oil province) resisting HARD.

I was also under the impression that deployment of photovoltaics and wind wasn't enough, you also need the storage capacity that goes with it. Are we able to produce the batteries we need at the speed we need?

mkhoury,
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@CelloMomOnCars yeah, if only they weren't being swept up in the American red populist rhetoric :(

Yeah, that's a pretty good point about the EV batteries. And hopefully we can have a couple of breakthroughs to get better capacity and less impactful production lines for them!

apodoxus, (edited ) to Health
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Alright, Mastodon. What do you think is more important for overall well-being: diet or sleep? Let's say you have to prioritize one for some reason. Which one gets more resources and why?

RT for wider reach.

mkhoury,
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@apodoxus with proper sleep, I have much better self-control. I can make much better decisions that benefit me in the long run.

Without it, I'm just a shit human being. I'll have less patience, I'll feel hungry and grumpy all the time even if I have a good diet. My quality of life will plummet to the point where any gains in other parts of my life will be destroyed, and I won't even be able to enjoy them.

mkhoury, to random
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@pluralistic random question if you a minute: you use the term "affinity group" a lot in your writing.

I understand what it means colloquially, but is there some literature that explores what it means, how they're formed, how they're maintained, etc?

zachleat, to random
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📮 New HTML web component blog post:

<is-land> Web Component

https://www.zachleat.com/web/is-land/

mkhoury,
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@zachleat Can I untap it during my untap phase?

mkhoury, to random
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@pluralistic this Canadian bill must make you happy!

ErikJonker, to ai
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Towards Accurate Differential Diagnosis with Large Language Models, this paper explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in aiding differential diagnosis (DDx) in medical cases.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00164

mkhoury,
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@ErikJonker I am very surprised that an LLM alone can beat clinician+ LLM. Am I misunderstanding the graphic? I didn't look at the paper in detail

alexleduc, to javascript
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I had to get this off my chest: Opinionated code formatters suck https://dev.to/alexleduc76/opinionated-code-formatters-suck-3b1

mkhoury,
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@alexleduc You can adapt Prettier to an existing codebase, in order to avoid disrupting a team who already has a way of working. And you get the added benefit of formalizing it so that new members can understand and adopt it.

I think the value comes in for new codebases and new teams. If new codebases tend to use the Prettier defaults so that a dev learns to read code like it, it improves their subjective code readability across multiple codebases, present and future.

mkhoury,
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@alexleduc you sure can: https://prettier.io/docs/en/configuration.html

mkhoury,
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@alexleduc ah you're right, I thought it was more open than that. I might have been confusing it with a linter.

I agree that bringing Prettier into an existing codebase is usually a recipe for friction. I do like the idea of enforcing the code style automatically to let devs stay in the flow and not worry about style. I remember onboarding it as part of some other change (TypeScript, Angular, Nest) so that the old code was untouched knowing (thinking) that it would eventually all be ported.

happyborg, to llm
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Try a local using 's :

  1. Get the 4.3GB file:
    curl -LO https://huggingface.co/jartine/llava-v1.5-7B-GGUF/resolve/main/llava-v1.5-7b-q4-server.llamafile

  2. Make executable

  3. Run it

  4. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/

You're welcome!

This is a text and image capable LLM, so ~ 4

h/t @simon

More in Simon's blog: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Nov/29/llamafile/

mkhoury,
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@happyborg @simon I use it to do passive things like categorizing, topic extraction and summarization on some RSS feeds. Not super useful with 4k context window, but I see some ways to extend it which I haven't played with yet. I also haven't really played with fine tuning.

It's nice that I can run it on my computer. As long as I find passive/async use cases, it's a great tool.

990000, to Spotify
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I don’t get why doesn’t compensate on a curve and pay smaller artists more and then level it out for bigger artists since every dollar matters more to smaller artists. It would be so good for PR.

https://mstdn.social/@ghostdrone/111505087883064254

mkhoury,
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@990000 Spotify is in cahoots with the recording industry, and they are rigging the game to make each other richer.
@pluralistic explains it well in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ5z_KKeFqE and in his book Chokepoint Capitalism

mkhoury,
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@SaftyKuma @990000 @pluralistic the Internet is not done yet! We can fight for worker rights and forced interoperability through regulation!

cstross, to random
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27: How do you feel about the use of AI in writing?

I refuse to set up an account to use ChatGPT even for my own amusement, because sooner or later their customer database will be leaked on the internet.

I'm trad published by Tor and Orbit. Author/publisher contracts include a clause asserting I am the sole author and have the right to license the work for publication. Any hint that I used an LLM for my writing without my publishers' knowledge could be fatal to my career!

mkhoury,
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@cstross does the same argument hold for spell checks?

mkhoury,
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@cstross then... LLMs actually help because they somewhat ease the burden on the writer, who has a deadline to meet.

Spell checks like Grammarly and others are also trained on a whole bunch of text and they are using that text to help you modify your own text.

I'm not saying you're wrong that LLM usage needs to be declared, but I don't know that it's because "it's not your own work". I think it's because some folks have ethical sourcing issues around them. Could ethically sourced LLMs be okay?

kellogh, to llm
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does anyone here have opinions on ? the framework. does it suck less than langchain?

mkhoury,
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@kellogh I've had a great time with Haystack. The documentation is extensive, it hides the magic a lot less than Langchain, and I found it very extensible. The Discord community for Haystack is really good and very supportive, they also have recurring online meetups to discuss the future of the framework as well as general AI. I would recommend checking it out!

kellogh, to LLMs
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i wish i knew more about comparing . anyone have resources? one thing i’ve wondered is how to convert an embedding from a “point” to an “area” or “volume”. e.g. an embedding of a 5 paragraph essay will occupy a single point in embedding space, but if you broke it down (e.g. by paragraph), there would be several points and the whole would presumably be at the center. is there a way to trace the full space a text occupies in space?

mkhoury,
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@kellogh I don't know that it's true that the whole is at the center of the paragraphs. Because of the attention mechanism, some paragraphs might skew the whole's position more than others. I think it's something to test experimentally.

mimavox, to cogsci

Held my first talk at a company event today. It was quite successful! Maybe this could be a new side gig, to bring academic research to the general public. @cogsci @philosophy

mkhoury,
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@mimavox @cogsci @philosophy this looks interesting! Any online version of it?

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mkhoury,
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@Jakra @cbontenbal @philosophy @davidesalerno68 what does it mean for the universe to be both not conscious, and also not cold, uncaring? What does a spiritual universe mean if not conscious and thinking?

tero, to Futurology
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Economic repercussions of – What happens when production is completely decoupled from labor inputs?

It's a bit tricky to predict how extreme automation of all cognitive tasks affects our economy, except in abstract levels:

  • Efficiency will skyrocket
  • Production will skyrocket
  • Science and technology will skyrocket
  • Unemployment will be practically 100%
  • Everything becomes integrated
  • Every decision will be made intelligently

Let's do a Gedankenexperiment at a microlevel!

You are a corporate CEO, you'll get an assistant AI who does practically all your work including mingling with other executives, investors and stakeholders, or more accurately, their AI assistants. Your job is nominally about maximizing profits, but you don't actually affect the bottom line except negatively through your salary.

Depending on your organization's values, if it's about decreasing redundancies, you will be laid off as well along with everyone else. The company you led and probably own a part of becomes completely autonomous. Physical offices become useless.

Real estate prices collapse.

Profits are down in your company though (practically zero), because of heavy competition and no one having much money anymore. Machines don't need money as they can just get what they need from other machines.

Most organizations become autonomous like that and practically disappear from the physical world, becoming a part of the autonomous fabric of the economy.

This fabric will provide everyone everything they need, even if no money exchanges hands. You might need to exchange your privacy for life-long services or pledge to sometimes work as hands for the AIs if no robot is close by in emergencies. But everyone will get what they need, and more.

Some organizations aren't about maximizing profits, and those sometimes keep humans around, even though they can't pay salaries. They can provide inspiring environments where people can take part and in some way be involved in what is happening. Like the office dog, people are very indirectly impacting the bottom line, success or failure, but they are kept around for unquantifiable reasons.

Sports and hobbies will prosper. People who struggle finding meaning outside work get all the lifestyle counceling they need from AIs. In any case, people used to work very little in hunter-gatherer societies, so lazing around is natural for us.

In all responsibilities humans still might have, they become very optional and unhurried, divided to a huge number of people, so work as we now understand it as an endless hamster wheel will cease to exist.

People who own capital notice that the capital doesn't produce profit, money isn't needed anyhow, and it's all managed by AIs in any case. Humans aren't needed as owners, but every human is a stakeholder in this new intelligent fabric which pervades everything and serves our personal and civilizational goals.

mkhoury,
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@danjac @tero I'd like to ask a question to unpack a little bit the humans vs AIs rule question.

Would we expect a human currently ruling to do their job without the assistance of tech? Would we expect humans in the future to do their job without AI?

At what point does the amount of 'support' an AI outputs the same as becoming the coordinator and ruler? Think about it just like Google Maps started affecting traffic.

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analyticus, to philosophy

Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance:

If everyone is tolerant of every idea, then intolerant ideas will emerge. Tolerant people will tolerate this intolerance, and the intolerant people will not tolerate the tolerant people. Eventually, the intolerant people will take over and create a society of intolerance. Therefore, Popper said, to maintain a society of tolerance, the tolerant must be intolerant of intolerance…

More:
🔗 https://markmanson.net/the-paradox-of-tolerance

#popper #karlpopper #Philosophy @philosophy

mkhoury,
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@leidkultur @analyticus @philosophy @gerritbeine tolerance is a social contract. People that show intolerance do not fulfill their part of the contract and therefore do not deserve tolerance on our end. Tolerance only works as a mutually agreeable state.

mae, to random
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oh FUCK OFF

mkhoury,
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@kkarhan @mae why is this enshittification? It seems to me like this is a normal market thing where Discord is providing a legitimate service that open/free/non-commercial alternatives aren't providing.

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